ultrageranium @320x200@post.lurk.org

Protest in Leiden University on 7 December 13:00-14:00 Lipsius Building (Leiden) against mass surveillance (not in Wijnhaven that day as I previously wrote). For more info on what's going on: https://www.mareonline.nl/en/background/suddenly-there-are-smart-cameras-everywhere-and-they-see-everything/

Catching @l03s at https://whereby.com/merz1

Tonight at 19:00: the first of the conversation series 'On the Edge – Conversations on Sustainability in Art, Design and Media.' at Merz Akademie (DE) and online.

I will give a talk on edge computing and sustainable ICT, Laura Marks will discuss her research of the carbon footprint of streaming media and the Small File Festival.

Dec7: Sean Cubitt and Technopolice_fr

Dec14 Eric Golo Stone and @entreprecariat

Stuttgart and online, 19:00 CET
https://merz-akademie.de/en/veranstaltungen/on-the-edge-1/

https://mathr.co.uk/smoltech/#exhibition

exhibition opening tonight!

Friday 26th November 2021 7pm

CT-20
73 Tontine St
Folkestone
CT20 1JR,
United Kingdom
http://ct-20.org

computer-based works by me
curated by @netzzz

I’m happy to announce the Drowning in Æther - Signal hunting bike rides.
The during the month of December I invite you to join me on a trip through the radio spectrum. We are going to hunt for as well as make audible signals of ghost satellites and satellite radio pirates hijacking abandoned military satellites. For the last couple of weeks, I have been assembling a mobile listening station, a cargo bike with a sound system, my antennas, and all the necessary equipment to hunt for satellite signals. During these collaborative bike rides, we try to sync up with the circadian rhythms of the satellites and explore the urban environment of Rotterdam to find the perfect spot to capture their radio signals.
Due to the current Covid situation, I’m planning multiple rides with small groups. The bikes will not only bring us to our listening spots but also help us to keep a healthy distance. So far, I scheduled the 4. & 5. of December as well as the 11. & 12. of December, but other spontaneous group rides during the month could be planned by contacting me.
If you are interested and want to receive updates, please sign up to the Drowning in Æther mailing list via this link:

https://we.lurk.org/mailman3/lists/drowninginaether.we.lurk.org

For more information about my research please visit:
https://drowning.in/aether/

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Tomorrow and Wednesday (remote via a Telegram channel and irl) at Lucerne University School of Art and Design:

"Cables, waves, hard drives and tattoos or how to trace the post-photographic image across networks"

In this two days workshop, we propose a transdisciplinary dialogue between ethnography, computer science, network activism, media and cultural studies in order to explore different methodologies of tracing/tracking images, patterns of circulation and various forms of 'invisibility'.

For more information:
http://functionariesofthecamera.net/packaging-across-networks/

"Conversations with Computers" continues today with a focus on #esolangs. From 6pm CET presentations of #MarianaMarangoni, #DanielTemkin #SarahGroffHenning_Palermo #MaksValencic & #ekheo.
You can be online with us at https://cwc.radical-openness.org/

You can now purchase a few copies of my classic 7" Education of the Noobz LIVE IN STOCCARDA and 12" Bodenständig 2000 UBERALBUM in Vienna's nicest record store: https://www.sissysound.com/
Cash-only place so don't show up there empty-handed!

Tonight at Radio Worm from 20:00 CET : *Electronic Merz* Radio Show.
Featuring dark and bassy electronic tunes with rainy atmospheres. The soundtrack you need to survive the impending lockdown depression!!

https://www.live.worm.org/radio-d-fect-from-worm-open-city

CSNI invites applications for a full time, funded PhD commencing in January 2022 or ASAP. We are interested in projects that examine the potential of networked performance. https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/?p=6027

NEW DESIGN CONGRESS x @entreprecariat

WELCOME TO MY THREAD TALK: A DISCUSSION ON DESIGN & DISILLUSION
STREAMING FRIDAY NOV 19
5PM GMT / 6PM CET / 8PM MSK / 9AM PST / 12PM EST

DETAILS & SIGN-UP:
https://stream.undersco.re/series/welcome-to-my-thread-talk

The short essay I wrote for Designers Write is finally out! Here, I ask: is design actually capable of synthesis? Can design truly "sum up" problems?*

I also had the chance to discuss the text with Joeri Pruys, who read an excerpt of his father's book Dingen Vormen Mensen from 1972, Klara Debeljak, author of the Theory of the Chrono-ghettos, and Aynouk Tan, who moderated the conversation. You find the podcast on the website.

* https://designerswrite.org/essays/against-design-synthesis/

There are two #uxn #varvara implementations I would like for my #OldHardware :

- classic #Amiga #AmigaOS (e.g. Kickstart 1.3 OCS A500 with 512kB RAM) booting from double-density #FloppyDisk (880kB) interoperable with the OS (no custom disk format), with mouse, keyboard and joystick support (2 mice could be fun, or 2 sticks, depending on the rom). Bonus points if it's portable enough to work on #AROS #x86 with a simple recompile (i.e, uses OS calls instead of custom chip pokes)

- bare metal #i386 (no FPU, 4MB RAM) bootable from double-density floppy (720kB) but maybe also supporting high density (1.44MB), with mouse + keyboard support - probably sensible to start with a DOS version first?

ideally they would persist data back to the boot disk if desired, and/or use a ram disk

is anyone working on these yet? otherwise I may have enough time next summer...

Starting today and throughout this week the PIXELvienna 14 conference for computer graphics and animation is happening again (free and mostly online). We've got a fine selection of artist talks with Q&A, and I'm especially happy that more than half of our speakers this year are queer or female, something we failed to achieve last year.

Featured artwork in this post is from Nidia Dias, [M]Dudeck & Jan Urschel.

https://pixelvienna.com/